R.A.D.

I took a self defense class with my friend Tina. This was right before the final simulation. I'll spare you the details, but it was definitely a fun class and a great experience. Who knew it could be so fun to beat people up? (only when necessary of course)

Festival of Colors

I went to Utah this weekend for the Festival of Colors. On my way down on Friday I decided to deliver a letter to Kathy's apartment. I took some pictures in front of her apartment, developed them at Walgreens, and left them there with a letter. I'm interested to see how she reacted.We went to the festival of colors in the morning. I didn't get very many pictures because I didn't want to get chalk all over my camera. I happened to run into two of my cousins. Karli and Cammy.
Paige and I after the big throw.
After the Festival I got to hang out at my brother Ammon's house. It was good to spend sometime with Ammon, Jillian, Jack and Grace. They got a trampoline for Christmas. I love trampolines so I was more than happy to play on it with the kids.

Jack and his static trampoline hair.
Saturday night in American Fork was the largest bridge move ever in the western hemisphere. We decided to check it out.

Me and Annie.

Bodies

Yesterday I went to the Bodies Exhibit in Idaho Falls. It was so fascinating! If you ever get the chance to go, DO IT!!! It is well worth your time. All over the exhibit are random facts about the body and I thought they were fun. So here they are:

Fascinating Facts

Heart Health

• The muscles in your heart can create enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Nearly 80% of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
• Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

Blood Bank

• Every drop of blood in the body passes through the heart once per minute.
• By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
• There are about 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult's body.

Take a Deep Breath

• In the average lifetime, a person will breathe in about 45 pounds of dust.
• A cough releases air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
• A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
• The lungs are the only organ in the body that can float on water.
• An average yawn lasts about six seconds.
• Smokers lose an average of two teeth every ten years.

Building Bones

• Bone is five times stronger than mild steel.
• Every three months our bone cells are completely replaced.
• Almost a quarter of your bones are in your feet and ankles.
• One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
• A person's nose and ears continue to grow throughout his or her life.
• Your thumb is the same size as your nose.

Staying Healthy

• Airborne bacteria from a flushing toilet can reach a toothbrush placed within six feet.
• The distance droplets can travel after a cough or sneeze: 3 – 12 feet.
• The number of germs, per square inch, on a toilet seat: 49. The number of germs, per square inch, on an office telephone: 25,000.
• One third of men don't wash their hands after using the restroom.
• Unfortunately, germs can stick to food dropped on the floor in less than five seconds.

You Are What You Eat

• Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
• If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
• People eat more popcorn when watching a sad movie as compared to a happy one.
• Food can get to your stomach even if you are hanging upside down.
• The small intestine is about four or five times larger than the large intestine.

Made in America

• The majority of models are skinnier than 98% of American women.
• Each year there are approximately 60,000 trampoline injuries in the United States.
• It is estimated that during his lifetime, an American man will spend between four and five months shaving.

Shape Up!

• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• The record for most pushups ever performed in one day is 46,001.
• Weight lifters who work out in gyms decorated in blue can lift heavier weights.
• Kissing for one minute burns 26 calories.
• The amount of time in a day that a preschooler is sedentary: 89%.

Women & Men

• On average, women blink twice as often as men.
• Girls' brains account for 2.5% of their body weight. Boys' brains account for 2%.
• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
• On average, women speak more than three times as much as men.
• If a man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

On the Outside

• Fingernails grow faster on the hand you favor.
• Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.
• The average human eyelash lives about 150 days.
• People who smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as those who do not smoke.

My Half Birthday!!!

Saturday, March 5 was my half birthday. It also happened to be my good friend Paige's half too. At the last minute she came up from Utah to celebrate with me. I made us a fantastic 2 halves birthday cake. It was even different colored halves on the inside.

At Wingers

I love celebrating my half birthday! It turns what would just be another ordinary day into a day to celebrate. Any reason for a party right?

Kjersti's Visit

A couple of weeks ago we had a long weekend. I chose to stay at school and have a nice relaxing weekend. It was indeed nice and relaxing. My cousin Kjersti came up from southern Utah. It was fun to spend some time with her. We went to the hotsprings, comic frenzy, and finished the day at Sammy's with one of there famous pie shakes.

Heise Hot Springs

Anatomy and Physiology

My Anatomy and Physiology professor teaching us about the heart (notice the human heart in his hand) while he was listening to the BYU game. In his defense he has never done this before, and it was actually a really effective lesson.

Long Weekend

I had a great long weekend in Utah and I don't have very many pictures to show for it. It started with a big birthday fiesta for my friends Will and Shareese.

Saturday morning we went to a Women's Conference where Sherri Dew spoke. So I got to meet her. Here is Shareese, Brittany, Sherri Dew, Me, and Jamela.

On Sunday I enjoyed my cousin Adam's mission farewell. He's really excited to serve in Kobe, Japan.

My cousin Tyson was in town from California for a skiing trip. He broke his collar bone on his last run, and he was in lost of pain all of Saturday night. My cousin Nathan broke his arm skiing on the same hill just a few days earlier. The ski patrol remembered him too. Hopefully ski patrol won't be on a first name basis with our family by the end of the skiing season.

Tyson, Grandpa, and Nathan. Grandpa made sure we documented the occasion.